[Catalog-sig] RFC: PEP 243: Module Repository Upload Mechanism

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 08:21:43AM +0200, Martin v. Loewis wrote:
>packages. When you have a binary package, it is already tailored for a
>specific system, so there is no need to detect capabilities at
>installation time.

Sure there is...  If you have half a dozen binary packages, how do you
determine the one that was built against the set of capabilities that your
system supports?

Sean
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